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...Love Bug is the Walt Disney organization's whimsical tribute to the Volkswagen. The little thing gets a crush on a down-and-out racing driver (Dean Jones) and follows him home. Jones spurns the smitten vehicle until he discovers that it has a mind of its own. The bug, it seems, is just about the fastest thing on four wheels and is fairly dropping its transmission to give Jones a ride to fame and fortune. The glory road, however, is constantly being rerouted by a swishy villain (David Tomlinson), who is determined to seize the wondrous...
Having made it selling for Max (and later for Revlon), Matchan set off at age 40 to make lipstick cases on his own, soon hit on his formula for a con glomerate. The key was Cope Allman, a down-and-out Birmingham maker of brass bedsteads, which he bought for its major asset: a stock-exchange list ing. By floating new issues and a lot of publicity, Matchan was able to finance a flood of plants beyond England (where his company now accounts for 90% of lipstick-case output) to France (100%), Australia (80%) and elsewhere. With other companies...
There are infinite gradations on the hippie scale--from the down-and-out hip-bo to the Harvard student in flowered shirt to the young executive who likes to turn on. The Mayor finds it convenient to maintain that the hip-bo's are the sine qua non of the hippie movement. But in the treacly web of hippie contact and connection, everyone has communication with everyone and strict dependence...
...drug scene itself has imposed demands for organization on the hippies. Foremost among the do-gooders are the Diggers; named for a 17th century society of English agricultural altruists, the latter-day Diggers provide free food, shelter and transportation for down-and-out hippies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and the East Village (where a Digger with the nom de hip of Galahad maintains a crowded "crash" pad and returns runaways to their parents). San Francisco alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names...
...Report) runs through several plots in The Plot: the Kennedy assassination, a defrocked diplomat's attempt to prove himself innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss and the entire journalistic profession could conceivably sue. But why should they? Nobody could accuse Plot's characters of resembling real people...